On September 30, 2010, US-orchestrated coup plotters shut down airports, blocked highways, took over an airbase, parliament and Quito streets - protesting a law restructuring police benefits despite President Raphael Correa doubling their wages.
He was pelted with tear gas and hospitalized - then prevented from leaving when rebel police and co...

Last Sunday May 24, the Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa gave his annual state of the union address in which he detailed on the social and economic changes in the country since the start of his mandate.
The head of state said that the main achievement of his government was "the lowering of poverty and inequality", the first one with ...

In January of 2013, the Chilean journalist and director of the PanoramasNews website, Patricio Mery Bell, travelled to Ecuador invited by the chancellor Ricardo Patiño, in order to put forward a serious accusation on the existence of a drug trafficking network with the involvement of high ranking officials of the former government of Sebasti...

In a press conference in Quito last week, the Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, warned about the implementation of a destabilizing strategy destined to "counteracting the progressive governments" of Latin America.
According to Correa, the modalities used to destabilize the ruling parties is the permanent mobilization of opposition ...

Last Wednesday, the Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, created the public bank BanEcuador by public decree, aiming to replace the current Banco Nacional del Fomento (BNF) starting from October of 2015.
According to the head of state, the financial institution will mainly operate in rural and marginal areas of Ecuador, and will adapt its...

The peace, dear friends, is not only the absence of war, the insulting opulence of a few in Latin America, alongside the most intolerable poverty, is also an everyday bullet against the human dignity. I therefore think that the motto of the summit, instead of prosperity with equity should be equity, justice for property.
Today we are witnessing ...

In early April, the government of Rafael Correa announced the modification to mortgage loans, with the aim of easing the access of the citizens to owning their first home.
The credits will be applicable only to single homes, meaning not more than one home can be bought in this way, and for first use homes, that is, not valid for expans...

After meeting in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba with President Evo Morales, the Ecuadorean chancellor, Roberto Patiño, confirmed that this year the Banco del Sur (Bank of the South) will begin its operations, headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and with two branches in Bolivia and Argentina.
The new banking institution will begin its ...

A team of nine specialists in the Hospital Luis Vernaza, in Guayanquil, led by the Dr. Lorena Escudero, managed to successfully carry out the second hand reimplant in Ecuador.
The name of the patient is Sergio Luna, an 18 years old boy who suffered the total severing of his right hand while operating a machine press. In the accident he l...

Last week, thousand of protesters attended a rally in the Ecuadorean capital to protest against some of the policies of the government of Rafael Correa. The gathering was organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador (CONAIE), a group criticized within Ecuador and by foreign commentators such as Eva Golinger and Jean Guy All...